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"Some say Steve used me, but I say he harnessed and motivated me, and drew out my best creative energy." - Bill Atkinson

Back in the day I used to use UPX to compress my executables to achieve impressively small sizes.


I remember doing that for some custom installer I wrote. It felt like a good idea for 5mins until it got flagged by a bunch of anti virus software… had to sign the installer in the end and spent a lot of time reporting false positives.


Still common today when dealing with Go executables.


Its a grand conspiracy, really bad search makes you look at what they want you to see. I've wrote my search tool just to see what was so hard about it all.


Podcast with Monte Davidoff

https://floppydays.libsyn.com/floppy-days-113-monte-davidoff...

Starts after about the first 15 minutes.


The solar system is like a mechanical clock, a timepiece.


Why is this not front page?


Taxing is not for punishment. Taxing is to support the government who's role is to shepherd the people.


Well, maybe people will stop frowning at me for wearing my wicking running shirts now.


I would like to see faster ways of counting. Only just recently AZ and NV have been called. How do other states, with millions of votes to count get it done quicker?


He never lost. Where are the missing 20M+ voters this time around?


Covid


...missing? They're waiting for their votes to be tallied.


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